Gunfire rang out at the upscale Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, on Sunday, as a government official reported 59 dead and 175 wounded in the previous day's terror attack……
The Al Qaeda-linked Somali militant group Shabab has claimed responsibility for Saturday's attack in a series of tweets, saying it was revenge for Kenya’s push into Somalia in 2011.
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By midafternoon, the Al-Kidmat Foundation charity had packed 78 corpses into coffins, said Hameed Ullah, the group’s senior coordinator, as it scrambled to collect more coffins from around the city. “The death toll may rise,” said Zaheerul Islam, Peshawar’s deputy commissioner.
No group claimed immediate responsibility for Sunday’s attack, but militant Islamist groups active in the area came under suspicion. Muhammad Ali, Peshawar’s chief of police, told reporters the attack was carried out by two suicide bombers. Generally at the end of Sunday services, he said, the 400 to 500 worshipers usually in attendance at All Saints Church of Pakistan, one of Peshawar’s oldest, are advised to break up into groups for their safety as they head out into the street.
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